Music can have political meanings without being directly about political issues, says Nick Grant, reviewing the ‘deeply humanist vision’ of Snarky Puppy’s latest album, Family Dinner: Volume Two.... Continue reading
Haydn Greenway analyses the hidden meanings of Berlioz’s great opera,’The Trojans’. Classical music can arouse extreme emotional responses. It also requires an intellectual engagement in order to... Continue reading
Jeremy Dibble marks International Womens Day, and the centenary of Hubert Parry’s setting of ‘Jerusalem’, with a discussion of the famous choral song and its links to... Continue reading
The cultural struggle takes many forms, says Phil Brett, and shows us the aesthetically beautiful and politically challenging art to be found on the sleeves of albums... Continue reading
Not all art is encased in gilt frames in galleries. An extraordinary arts collective has been developed in Ashington, Northumberland, where the Ashington Group – commonly known... Continue reading
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. The injustices that the bereaved families of Aberfan had to deal with on top of their grief... Continue reading
Mark Perryman describes Dad’s Army as the most popular front of them all. 1968 was a tumultuous year. The Tet Offensive, the civil rights movement, the May... Continue reading
This article, covering the history, politics and practice of Britain’s foremost poitical theatre company, is a collective work-in-progress by members of the company. Banner Theatre is a... Continue reading
Steve Willey introduces the ‘poetics of negative energy’ in two poems of William Rowe, the sound of pigs falling and index, published above. at the endof each... Continue reading